Profile Problem

[Jens Wiesecke]

Justace Clutter schrieb:

> Hey all,
>
>      I know that this question has been beat to death on the list and the
> other related lists for samba.  I have TNG doing login and the smbd and
> the nmbd from the MAIN branch.  I have the settings in my smb.conf file as
> follows:
>
>         netbios name = GATEWAY
>         logon script = %U.bat
>         logon path = \\GATEWAY\profile\%U
>         domain logons = Yes
>
>     The problem is when a user logs onto the system all the roving profile
> stuff is being stored in the users home directory.  I have tryed variouns
> settings and perms on the directory but it always goes to the home
> directory.  The system in question is a Win98 Machine.  I dunno.  Has
> anybody else had this problem?
>
> Justace

I'm new to Samba, so I don't now if there is a Samba-based solution. But I had
the same problem running Win9x in a NT 4.0 Domain.

I found a solution to this by doing the following:

1. disable raoming profiles on the _Win9x_-machine
(2. creating a profile-drectory for each domain-user on the NT PDC)
3. telling all the Win9x-Clients where to put the Profiles on the PDC (it's a
Registry-Hack described in the M$ literature for Win95)

I did this one year ago, so I have to look if I can find the literature again
(now, I have no Win9x-clients anymore). If anybody is interested in it, I
would just post it to samba-ntdom at samba.org

Attention:
Be careful with the Administrator's-profile. It is possible, that the
Administrator's-profile is corrupted, so you can't logon to the PDC anymore.

--
Jens Wiesecke
Institut für Makromolekulare Chemie
AK Prof. Dr. Rehahn

Petersenstr. 22
64287 Darmstadt

E-Mail: j_wiese at hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de